Rainbow's End

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Early one cold morning in February a young woman's body is found in one of the 'garderobes' amid the ancient Roman ruins of Old Sarum, a few miles from Stonehenge - the apparent victim of an accidental fall.
In the Tate Gallery in London an elderly woman has collapsed in front of a famous portrait - from a supposed heart attack.
And the body of an elderly tapister is found in the nave of Exeter Cathedral - dead, it is presumed, from natural causes.
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They are three ostensibly unsuspicious, unrelated deaths. But when Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Richard Jury joins forces with Divisional Commander Brian Macalvie and aristocratic amateur sleuth Melrose Plant they discover that beneath the external appearance of innocent death, there may be a stronger - more sinister - connection. A tenuous link between the three women takes Jury all the way to Santa Fe, where he is drawn into a complex tangle of relationships between a lively cast of enigmatic and diverse characters. As... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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Early one cold morning in February a young woman's body is found in one of the 'garderobes' amid the ancient Roman ruins of Old Sarum, a few miles from Stonehenge - the apparent victim of an accidental fall.
In the Tate Gallery in London an elderly woman has collapsed in front of a famous portrait - from a supposed heart attack.
And the body of an elderly tapister is found in the nave of Exeter Cathedral - dead, it is presumed, from natural causes.
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They are three ostensibly unsuspicious, unrelated deaths. But when Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Richard Jury joins forces with Divisional Commander Brian Macalvie and aristocratic amateur sleuth Melrose Plant they discover that beneath the external appearance of innocent death, there may be a stronger - more sinister - connection. A tenuous link between the three women takes Jury all the way to Santa Fe, where he is drawn into a complex tangle of relationships between a lively cast of enigmatic and diverse characters. As the investigation proceeds, the key to the puzzle seems to be in seven random numbers - and the person who can unlock it is an unconventional teenager and her coyote.
Also by Martha Grimes and available from Headline: THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON, THE DIRTY DUCK, JERUSALEM INN, I AM THE ONLY RUNNING FOOTMAN, THE FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE, HEILP THE POOR STRUGGLER, THE DEER LEAP, THE OLD FOX DECEIV'D, THt; ANODYNE NECKLACE, THE OLD SILENT, THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF, THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES, THE END OF THE PIER 'Entertaining intriguing thoroughly researched' Sunday Express; 'Mystery with charm, grace, characters both richly comic and sinister, a nifty plot with a twist of surprise and, at the end, a poignance that pierces the heart' Washington Post; 'Often amusing, always quirky and never less than literate' Oxford Mail
Cover illustration by Kenny McKendry Vissza